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obama has said that most u.s. forces will be out of afghanistan by 2014 and he says this tragedy won't change that timetable. but the president added this in an interview with reporter john delano of pittsburgh's cbs station kdka. >> it's time. it's been a decade and frankly now that we've gotten bin laden, now that we've weakened al qaeda we're in a stronger position to transition than we would have been two or three years ago. >> pelley: as we said, the u.s. military acknowledges an american soldier committed this atrocity, but it hasn't charged him or released his name. he turned himself in at his post after the killings. here's david martin with what investigators know about him and the shootings so far. >> reporter: with blood still on the floor, a distraught afghan woman described in horrific detail what happened when a u.s. army sergeant went on a cold-blooded killing spree. "he dragged the boys by their hair and shot them in her mouth she says he went door to door in two villages, showing no mercy. "is thi
obama has said that most u.s. forces will be out of afghanistan by 2014 and he says this tragedy won't change that timetable. but the president added this in an interview with reporter john delano of pittsburgh's cbs station kdka. >> it's time. it's been a decade and frankly now that we've gotten bin laden, now that we've weakened al qaeda we're in a stronger position to transition than we would have been two or three years ago. >> pelley: as we said, the u.s. military acknowledges...
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ohio, north carolina, and new hampshire. >> the single entity airing the most ads right now is the obama campaign. they are engaged in high levels in those battleground states. >> reporter: the romney campaign is barred from spending money it raised from the general election until after the republican convention. the president-- because he ran uncontested in the primaries-- does not have that problem. >> sometimes the truth is tricky. >> reporter: the battleground states all share something else in addition to the attention. >> over 98%, 99% of the ads airing now are negative. there's a few spanish language positive ads that are on the air now. other than that, everything, absolutely everything that's on the air is negative. >> reporter: that may change because unlike that president who is a known commodity, romney will have to introduce himself to the general electorate. experts believe he will have to roll out some positive message at some point. now the t.v. audience here in ohio may be sick of these political ads, scott, but the t.v. stations here are loving them and raking in the re
ohio, north carolina, and new hampshire. >> the single entity airing the most ads right now is the obama campaign. they are engaged in high levels in those battleground states. >> reporter: the romney campaign is barred from spending money it raised from the general election until after the republican convention. the president-- because he ran uncontested in the primaries-- does not have that problem. >> sometimes the truth is tricky. >> reporter: the battleground states...
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in florida, president obama leads by six points, 51% to 45. he's ahead by six in ohio as well, 50 to 44. and mr. obama's biggest lead over governor romney is in pennsylvania, an 11-point advantage, 53% to 42. nancy cordes has been doing some reporting today at obama campaign headquarters in chicago, and she's been looking at the numbers. , ncy, what story do they tell? >> reporter: well, scott, the numbers were well received at obama headquarters, as you might imagine, though they say they r those battleground states today, ohio, asking voters to give him more time to fix the economy. >> our first order of business os to recover all the jobs and wealth that was lost in the crisis. and we've made strides these last three and a half years to get that done. >> reporter: how can that pgument play in our poll? we asked voters whether president obama or governor romney would do a better job handling the economy, and they were almost evenly split. in ohio, pennsylvania, and florida. there was this positive news for the president-- more than half of v
in florida, president obama leads by six points, 51% to 45. he's ahead by six in ohio as well, 50 to 44. and mr. obama's biggest lead over governor romney is in pennsylvania, an 11-point advantage, 53% to 42. nancy cordes has been doing some reporting today at obama campaign headquarters in chicago, and she's been looking at the numbers. , ncy, what story do they tell? >> reporter: well, scott, the numbers were well received at obama headquarters, as you might imagine, though they say...
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obama leads among women, mr. romney has been gaining ground recently. >> pelley: nancy cordes at the white house tonight, nancy, thank you very much. in syria, the battle is on for the ancient city of aleppo. it is part of the civil war that started nearly a year and a half ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of bashar al-assad. the u.n. says 200,000 people have fled aleppo which has more than 3 million residents, about the size of los angeles. the syrian dictatorship bars reporters from the region but correspondent charlie d'agata slipped in past the syrian army and we spoke to him earlier today. >> what's clear is that the battle for aleppo is raging on. what is less clear is who's winning. but the rebels did score a victory this morning just northwest of aleppo. they overran a government outpost. and they captured something between 8 and 10 tanks, a lot of trucks with ammunition and weapons desperately needed weapons. now this evening we heard a series of explosions in this area. residents here
obama leads among women, mr. romney has been gaining ground recently. >> pelley: nancy cordes at the white house tonight, nancy, thank you very much. in syria, the battle is on for the ancient city of aleppo. it is part of the civil war that started nearly a year and a half ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of bashar al-assad. the u.n. says 200,000 people have fled aleppo which has more than 3 million residents, about the size of los angeles. the syrian dictatorship bars...
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they won't talk to me. >> i haven't spoken to president obama since last summer. i'm the chairman of the budget committee. we don't just-- he calls us and has us come meet with him. >> pelley: cbs news will bring you live coverage of governor romney's acceptance speech tonight at 10:00 eastern time, that is 7:00 in the west. the psychiatrist who treated james holmes a few weeks before the colorado theater massacre spoke publicly for the first time today. she testified at a hearing to determine whether prosecutors can have a notebook that holmes sent to her. john blackstone is at the courthouse in colorado. john. >> reporter: scott, today, james holmes came face to face with the psychiatrist who once treated him at the university of colorado. now, dr. lynne fenton told the court their doctor-patient relationship ended on june 11. on that day, dr. fenton said, she reported concerns to the campus police. the next day, holmes' access card to the university was canceled. now, more than a month later, on july 19, the day before the shooting, holmes put a package in the
they won't talk to me. >> i haven't spoken to president obama since last summer. i'm the chairman of the budget committee. we don't just-- he calls us and has us come meet with him. >> pelley: cbs news will bring you live coverage of governor romney's acceptance speech tonight at 10:00 eastern time, that is 7:00 in the west. the psychiatrist who treated james holmes a few weeks before the colorado theater massacre spoke publicly for the first time today. she testified at a hearing...
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obama's campaign manager, jim messina said she should apologize. even first lady michelle balm weighed in, tweeting every mother works hard and every woman deserves to be respected. anne romney herself, who normally avoids controversies, had this to say. >> my career choice was to be a mother, and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. >> reporter: republicans have been looking for a way to win back women after damaging fights this winter're winter over insurance coverage for contraception, and funding for planned parenthood. a recent today at a-gallup poll found president obama led romney by 18 points among women. so romney has been spending more time talking about his wife, calling her sounding board. >> she reports reports to me rey that the issue women care about most is the economy. and getting good jobs for their kids. and for themselves. >> reporter: this week, he repeatedly argued that the president has failed workwomen. >> this is an amazing statistic. the pnrcentage of jobs lost by women in the pre
obama's campaign manager, jim messina said she should apologize. even first lady michelle balm weighed in, tweeting every mother works hard and every woman deserves to be respected. anne romney herself, who normally avoids controversies, had this to say. >> my career choice was to be a mother, and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. >> reporter: republicans have been looking for a way to win back women after damaging fights this winter're...
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inside obama reelection headquarters. we asked the president's top political strategist what he admires about the romney political strategist what he admires about the romney call right, let's decide what to do about medicare and social security... security. that's what matters to me... me? i've been paying in all these years... years washington's been talking at us, but they never really listen... listen...it's not just some line item on a budget; it's what i'll have to live on... i live on branson street, and i have something to say... [ male announcer ] aarp is bringing the conversation on medicare and social security out from behind closed doors in washington. because you've earned a say. who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you
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obama up mr. oboints. and the colorado poll has him ahead by two points. our campaign 2012 team is covering. first we're going to go to nancy wedes with the president tonight. nancy? >> pelley: scott, after 100 rallies, the president holds his final one here in des moines tonight for two reasons: first, mostuse iowa is one of the battleground states the campaign inls most confident about sinning and second because, in many ways, this is the state that first catapulted him towards the president that upset win in the iowa caucuses five years ago. >> hello, colorado! hello, wisconsin! hello, ohio! >> pelley: president obama has sient the past 48 hours in seven maates, three time zones. >> are you fired up? areeporter: surrendering sleep and his voice in pursuit of a second time. >> this is not just a choice between two candidates and two parties, it's a choice between wo different visions of aerica. ffes a choice between the return to the top-down economic it olicies that crashed our economy or a vision that says 'v've got to build a strong foundation based o
obama up mr. oboints. and the colorado poll has him ahead by two points. our campaign 2012 team is covering. first we're going to go to nancy wedes with the president tonight. nancy? >> pelley: scott, after 100 rallies, the president holds his final one here in des moines tonight for two reasons: first, mostuse iowa is one of the battleground states the campaign inls most confident about sinning and second because, in many ways, this is the state that first catapulted him towards the...
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a senior administration official says president obama decided monday night to launch the rescue after fresh intelligence revealed that buchanan's health was quickly deteriorating. the successful mission came just nine months after seal team 6 tracked down and killed osama bin laden. on "cbs this morning" vice president biden praised the rescuers and sound this warning. >> everyone should know, all those pirates, all those terrorists, others should know-- we will find you. we will find you and we will take care of america's interests. >> reporter: now the mission included an option for the seals to possibly take the somali gunmen alive but one official told us they were heavily armed with explosives nearby. he added, "our troops acted appropriately." >> pelley: bob, how did they find these people? >> reporter: of course, officials don't want to say on the record, scott, but we do know over the past three months the kidnappers had made contact, more than once, with buchanan's family, in part to demand a ransom. and those communications very well may have helped the f.b.i. and the pentag
a senior administration official says president obama decided monday night to launch the rescue after fresh intelligence revealed that buchanan's health was quickly deteriorating. the successful mission came just nine months after seal team 6 tracked down and killed osama bin laden. on "cbs this morning" vice president biden praised the rescuers and sound this warning. >> everyone should know, all those pirates, all those terrorists, others should know-- we will find you. we...
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obama, scott, to a second term. >> pelley: norathanks. governor romney has a very different view and jan crawford was with him in cincinnati today. jan. >> reporter: well, scott, romney says the president has just run out of time and his ideas to fick the economy not only aren't working but in fact are making things worse. >> he's been president for three and a half years. and talk is cheap. action speaks very loud. if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look around ohio, look around the country, and you'll see that a lot of people are hurting, a lot of people have had some real tough times. >> reporter: romney has a fundamentally different approach for creating jobs, relying less on government spending and more on encouraging growth in the private sector. romney would open up energy production to cut costs for manufacturers and create energy jobs. eliminate the president's health care reform law, which romney says hurts small businesses. and cut spending to reduce the dose. >> this is our time. we can either continue on
obama, scott, to a second term. >> pelley: norathanks. governor romney has a very different view and jan crawford was with him in cincinnati today. jan. >> reporter: well, scott, romney says the president has just run out of time and his ideas to fick the economy not only aren't working but in fact are making things worse. >> he's been president for three and a half years. and talk is cheap. action speaks very loud. if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look...
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>> reporter: scott, gun control has never been an obama administration priority. it is now, and the clock is ticking on vice president joe biden's gun violence task force. mr. obama wants to announce new initiatives before his state of the union address in late january. >> there's no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. we're going to need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to a gun. we're going to need to look more closely at a culture that all too often glorifies guns and violence. and any actions we must take must begin inside the home and inside our hearts. >> reporter: after congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 18 others were shot in arizona and 12 were murdered in a colorado movie theater the president offered up words but little else. now words appear to be yielding to action and impatience. >> i will use all the powers of this office to helped advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. we won't prevent them all but that can't be execute not to try. >> r
>> reporter: scott, gun control has never been an obama administration priority. it is now, and the clock is ticking on vice president joe biden's gun violence task force. mr. obama wants to announce new initiatives before his state of the union address in late january. >> there's no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. we're going to need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to a gun. we're going to...
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obama put it. >> i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command. the world is watching. the use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. >> pelley: so why did the president say it today? david martin hat the pentagon has been talking to his sources. >> reporter: this is a commercial satellite photo of a syrian chemical weapons base. u.s. monitoring of roughly two dozen bases like this indicates the assad regime has begun preparing its chemical weapons for use. orders have been issued to bring together chemical ingredients which are normally stored separately for safety, but when combined form a deadly nerve agent sarin. throughout months of heavy fighting, intelligence analysts said assad remained confident he would defeat the uprising. now the fighting has crept so close to damascus that airliners are refusing to land and syria experts say the regime may have pushed the panic button. although the syrian foreign m
obama put it. >> i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command. the world is watching. the use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. >> pelley: so why did the president say it today? david martin hat the pentagon has been talking to his sources. >> reporter: this is a commercial satellite photo of a syrian...
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aren't they also run by former aides of barack obama, newt gingrich, and mitt romney? >> absolutely. these independent committees are run by very close associates of ates ae candidates and that ties them even closer to the candidates' campaign. >> reporter: former white house official bill burton now leads a pro-obama superpac. a pro-gingrich superpac was set up by his former spokesperson rick tyler and a pro-romney superpac is run by his former political director carl forti. >> this is clearly one of those washington situations where with a wink and nod you can do almost anything. >> reporter: scott, the anyt president's political advisors plainly admit they did this because they didn't want to go into the election with one arm tied behind their back. here's what they're facing: a rl rrpac run by karl rove has ised to to raise some $200 million. the billionaire koch brothers have also talked about steering up to $200 million to conservative groups by election day. >> pelley: norah, thank you very much. the white house also said today it is considering humanitarian aid
aren't they also run by former aides of barack obama, newt gingrich, and mitt romney? >> absolutely. these independent committees are run by very close associates of ates ae candidates and that ties them even closer to the candidates' campaign. >> reporter: former white house official bill burton now leads a pro-obama superpac. a pro-gingrich superpac was set up by his former spokesperson rick tyler and a pro-romney superpac is run by his former political director carl forti....
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the obama campaign disputes romney's assertion. they say the new health care law will provide more benefits. our reporters are out in force on the campaign trail today and we begin with jan crawford who's traveling with the romney campaign in miami. jan? >> reporter: bob, ryan's nomination has reset this campaign and made medicare a major issue in the race and there's no state in this country that relies as heavily on medicare as florida so you can be sure that's where the battle over medicare is going to be the most fierce. >> we want to make sure we preserve and protect medicare. >> reporter: romney has hit that message hard since he announced paul ryan as his running mate in five speechs across four states. all part of an effort to deflect attacks that ryan's ideas to reform medicare will cost seniors more. with medicare expected to go bust by 2024, romney argued in iowa today that washington has a responsibility to fix it for future generations >> we need to stop spending money we don't have. (cheers and applause) president oba
the obama campaign disputes romney's assertion. they say the new health care law will provide more benefits. our reporters are out in force on the campaign trail today and we begin with jan crawford who's traveling with the romney campaign in miami. jan? >> reporter: bob, ryan's nomination has reset this campaign and made medicare a major issue in the race and there's no state in this country that relies as heavily on medicare as florida so you can be sure that's where the battle over...
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president obama spoke not only as the president but as an african american parent. he said "when i think about this boy, i think about my own kids." >> i think all of just to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happ happen. and that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident. but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. >> pelley: it was a sunday night a month ago in sanford, florida. ray von martin, a high school student never in trouble with the law, was on on an errand when he caught the eye of neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman. zimmerman confronted martin. zimmerman says the shooting that resulted was self-defense. today mark strassmann talked to the parents who the president mentioned and to a man who knows zimmerman well. >> 12 >> 12,000 teenagers walked out of miami schools today. that was show of solidarity for t.m., trayvon martin, and his parents tracy martin and sigh breana fulton. >> they're like our c
president obama spoke not only as the president but as an african american parent. he said "when i think about this boy, i think about my own kids." >> i think all of just to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happ happen. and that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident. but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. >> pelley:...
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the winner will be announced later this month and honored by president obama. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this 19news now. >> tonight it is the megamillion dollar question on everyone's mind. is that woman who claims to be the winner of the $646 million jackpot carrying off a hoax or is that single mom of seven from baltimore really richer than our wildest dreams? scott has the latest. >> reporter: media scorned by a single mother of seven that says she won the megamillions, but can't get the story straight about whether she even holds the ticket. >> you have it yourself? >> are you sure you have it? >> i was
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. >> reporter: what grade would you give president obama? >> oh, an "f." there's no question about that. >> reporter: across the board. >> across the board. >> reporter: even despite the killing of osama bin laden. >> look at what's happening in the middle east. the arab spring has become the arab winter. that's hardly a success. and of course domestically, it's hard to call what, now, 39, 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success when even he said by now, it would be in the 6% range. and by now it is not. it's over eight. >> reporter: what would do you though, specifically, when you think about the problem of long-term unemployment, what would do you to turn that around in a romney administration? >> you know, one of the things we tried when i was the governor of massachusetts was to create an incentive for employers to actually hire people who had been out of work for a long time. and so we said if you hire someone who has been out of work a year or more, we're going to give you the, the employer, i think it was a $2,000 check to be able to train this
. >> reporter: what grade would you give president obama? >> oh, an "f." there's no question about that. >> reporter: across the board. >> across the board. >> reporter: even despite the killing of osama bin laden. >> look at what's happening in the middle east. the arab spring has become the arab winter. that's hardly a success. and of course domestically, it's hard to call what, now, 39, 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success when even he...
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earlier today president obama picked up the phone and called his rival mitt romney. governor romney clinched the republican nomination last night after a big win in the texas primary. mr. obama called to congratulate him and with that call we thought we would look at the state of the contest-- and is it close. these states that you see in blue are states that will most likely vote for president obama, the states in red are solidly for romney. the gold for both candidates is found in the battleground states. each of these could go either way. 270 electoral votes are needed to win. our cbs news elections and polling unit estimates that obama can count on 212, romney can rely on 191, and 135 are up for grabs. john dickerson is our political director. he's been traveling in the tossup states of ohio and florida and, john, let's start with ohio. what's the picture there? >> ohio with with its 18 electoral votes is dead even according to the polls between the two candidates the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a little below the national rate of 8.1%. the president says the auto
earlier today president obama picked up the phone and called his rival mitt romney. governor romney clinched the republican nomination last night after a big win in the texas primary. mr. obama called to congratulate him and with that call we thought we would look at the state of the contest-- and is it close. these states that you see in blue are states that will most likely vote for president obama, the states in red are solidly for romney. the gold for both candidates is found in the...
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t the obama campaign said your remarks seemed unhinged. mur reaction to that? >> i am very measured. i can be much more dramatic, i 've se i think unhinged would have to characterize what we've seen from the president's campaign. r> reporter: as evidence, his aides pointed to the obama's camp refusal to denounce an ad by an outside group. the commercial linked romney to an uninsured woman who died of cancer five years after romney's former company, bain capital, i uddered her husband's steel plant. >> and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he's done to anyone. >> reporter: the obama campaign called romney's accusation "particularly strange coming at a time when he's pouring tens of millions of dollars into tgative ads that are ,emonstrably false." >> these folks on the other side, i mean, they're just writing $10 million checks. governor romney, obviously, has more friends than i do that can write $10 million checks. >> reporter: his campaign cited a pair of recent ads that accused the president of gutting welfare. >> under oba
t the obama campaign said your remarks seemed unhinged. mur reaction to that? >> i am very measured. i can be much more dramatic, i 've se i think unhinged would have to characterize what we've seen from the president's campaign. r> reporter: as evidence, his aides pointed to the obama's camp refusal to denounce an ad by an outside group. the commercial linked romney to an uninsured woman who died of cancer five years after romney's former company, bain capital, i uddered her husband's...
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but the crowd didn't like it or any of romney's criticism of president obama. shirley rivens smith of washington, d.c. was one of those who booed. >> he made it very clear he was going to try to bring jobs to the black community to the tphao *pt and i thought that was a lie. >> reporter: but there were some moments of polite applause as when romney talked about helping the middle-class. >> and i don't just mean for those who are middle-class now. i also mean for those who have waited so long for their chance to join the middle-class. (applause) >> reporter: romney isn't the first republican presidential contender to address the n.a.a.c.p., but for nominees like john mccain it didn't translate into votes, running against mr. obama four years ago, john mccain got 4% of the african american vote-- well below the 11% george w. bush received when he received when he ran against john kerry in 2004. now the president continues to have strong support, high approval ratings among african americans but some democrats are worried about turnout and, scott, romney is hoping
but the crowd didn't like it or any of romney's criticism of president obama. shirley rivens smith of washington, d.c. was one of those who booed. >> he made it very clear he was going to try to bring jobs to the black community to the tphao *pt and i thought that was a lie. >> reporter: but there were some moments of polite applause as when romney talked about helping the middle-class. >> and i don't just mean for those who are middle-class now. i also mean for those who have...
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. >> pelley: also today, mark, the obama administration banned b.p. from getting any new contracts to drill on federal property. the administration said b.p. showed "a lack of business integrity." tomorrow, president obama will send his top negotiators to meet tith congressional leaders. they have only weeks now to head off a big tax increase for most americans. the income tax rates will jump automatically january 1. it will be such a shock to the system that it has been called the fiscal cliff. our coverage starts on the white house lawn tonight with major garrett. major. >> reporter: scott, the saesident said for the first time, there is a two-step process to averting the fiscal cliff. republicans must act now to prevent a tax increase for households earning less than $250,000. do that now, president obama said, and he and congress can work out the details of spending cuts later. ( applause ) before a crowd of supporters, the white house invited from the mid-atlantic region, president obama put congressional republicans on notice. >> it's too import
. >> pelley: also today, mark, the obama administration banned b.p. from getting any new contracts to drill on federal property. the administration said b.p. showed "a lack of business integrity." tomorrow, president obama will send his top negotiators to meet tith congressional leaders. they have only weeks now to head off a big tax increase for most americans. the income tax rates will jump automatically january 1. it will be such a shock to the system that it has been called...
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he was white house chief of staff in the first two years of the obama administration. before that he was a chicago area congressman. mayor emanuel brought in a new police suspect and crime is down in this city about 10% with the one exception of murder. >> i got a letter from a viewer the other day who asked us why we were spending so much time at the evening news covering afghanistan when more people were dying in chicago. why is the murder rate up 38%? >> well, first of all, scott, let's give everybody... your viewers a fair view. crime year over year is down 10%. >> pelley: other kinds of crime, other than homicide. >> burglary, armed rob rishgs theft, 10%. so we have a gun violence issue specifically tied to gangs. so we've readjusted the strategy closing liquor stores and communities where are that are a magnet and cancer on the community for gangs and narcotics, boarding up buildings or tearing them down where gang bangers have taken them over. putting the command and district leaders in responsible position and holding them accountable for results. >> pelley: on
he was white house chief of staff in the first two years of the obama administration. before that he was a chicago area congressman. mayor emanuel brought in a new police suspect and crime is down in this city about 10% with the one exception of murder. >> i got a letter from a viewer the other day who asked us why we were spending so much time at the evening news covering afghanistan when more people were dying in chicago. why is the murder rate up 38%? >> well, first of all,...
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with jobs the number-one issue in the election, the obama campaign says romney was running the private equity firm at a nvme when it was investing in dimpanies that were sending american jobs overseas. romney insists he'd already left efin at the time in question. we'll hear from him in just a moment. t rst, wyatt andrews look at romney and his role at bain olpital. r: reporter: when mitt romney was c.e.o. of bain capital in the '90s, bain invested in a series of companies, including call centers and manufacturers that expanded overseas, sometimes at the expense of american workers. after those investments were first reported in the "washington post," the obama campaign pounced. >> mitt romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing u.s. jobs to low-wage countries. gn reporter: when the president's campaign then charged that romney as a bain manager personally shipped jobs overseas, the romney campaign denied that saying it never happened. outsourcing is now a crucial issue for romney who's running on a platform of american jobs. >> it's because i love jobs! i want more good jobs for
with jobs the number-one issue in the election, the obama campaign says romney was running the private equity firm at a nvme when it was investing in dimpanies that were sending american jobs overseas. romney insists he'd already left efin at the time in question. we'll hear from him in just a moment. t rst, wyatt andrews look at romney and his role at bain olpital. r: reporter: when mitt romney was c.e.o. of bain capital in the '90s, bain invested in a series of companies, including call...
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obama would beat ron paul by 3%, santorum by 8%, and newt gingrich by a whopping 12%. with some republicans still deciding on the right candidate, romney is counting on superior organization and money to win them over. >> colorado's got something to say about who our nominee is going to be and i think i'm going to be that nominee. >> reporter: now, even if rick santorum does well in these states and wins a couple it's important to keep in mind that the states are kind of quirky. missouri, for example, is basically a beauty contest. its voters will caucus for real next month. >> pelley: jan, if santorum does do well tonight, as the polls suggest, which candidate does he hurt the most? >> reporter: oh, that would be newt gingrich. they are both running on a similar message that there's a true conservative alternative to mitt romney so if santorum has any kind of surge it would cut into gingrich's supporters and, scott, equally importantly, those campaign contributions. >> pelley: we'll be watching, jan, thanks very much. in a sharp about-face the obama reelection campaig
obama would beat ron paul by 3%, santorum by 8%, and newt gingrich by a whopping 12%. with some republicans still deciding on the right candidate, romney is counting on superior organization and money to win them over. >> colorado's got something to say about who our nominee is going to be and i think i'm going to be that nominee. >> reporter: now, even if rick santorum does well in these states and wins a couple it's important to keep in mind that the states are kind of quirky....
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in washington today, president obama used his sharpest language yet as he repeated that he would use military force to stop iran from building an atomic bomb. but only as a last resort. the president spoke ahead of an important meeting at the white house on monday with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu net. norah o'donnell is at the white house tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, president obama is trying to convince the israeli leader that a preemptive strike is not the best option. he's also trying to convince the american public as well telling a woman at a fund raidser last night that she was jumping the gun by thinking that war was imminent. >> nobody's announced a war, young lady. (laughter) but we appreciate your sentiment. >> reporter: in fact, mr. obama is trying to avoid a war, telling the "atlantic" magazine he will try to persuade netanyahu to postpone an attack on iran's nuclear facilities. esident wants to assure israelis that a military opt the president wants to assure israelis that a military option is on the table if sanctions fail. >> reporter: for his
in washington today, president obama used his sharpest language yet as he repeated that he would use military force to stop iran from building an atomic bomb. but only as a last resort. the president spoke ahead of an important meeting at the white house on monday with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu net. norah o'donnell is at the white house tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, president obama is trying to convince the israeli leader that a preemptive strike is not the best...
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cbs this morning's gayle king asks michelle obama about her advice to the president. >> i am one of his biggest confidants, but he has dozens of really smart people who surround him. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from manchester, new hampshire. special western edition. good evening. mitt romney is now 2-for-2 in the race for the republican presidential nomination at this moment he is giving his victory speech here in manchester new hampshire. cbs projects he has won today's new hampshire primary with the help of both moderates and conservatives. ron paul is leading jon huntsman for second place. here's a look at the tabulated votes so far. 21% of the vote in, ron paul is running strong in second place with huntsman at 17%. our projections are based on the early vote count. on the polling that we did of voters after they cast their ballots. when we asked those voters what they were looking for in a candidate, 34% told us the ability to defeat president obama. and the majority of them, 59%, believe mitt romney is the candida
cbs this morning's gayle king asks michelle obama about her advice to the president. >> i am one of his biggest confidants, but he has dozens of really smart people who surround him. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from manchester, new hampshire. special western edition. good evening. mitt romney is now 2-for-2 in the race for the republican presidential nomination at this moment he is giving his victory speech here...
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that rally helped energize the students for obama movement nationwide and helped obama win virginia. but now fast forward to just yesterday when mitt romney was the rock star on this very same campus. 5,000 people came to hear him in the basketball arena with several thousand people listening to him from the outside. tonight the obama campaign says it owns the numbers of young voters, the romney campaign says it owns young voters' enthusiasm. and the extent to which young voters will either stay in or quit the obama coalition, scott, that could be decisive tonight in this razor-thin fight for battleground virginia. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you. now, the biggest of the swing states is florida with 29 electoral votes and we have elaine quijano there tonight. elaine? >> reporter: good evening, scott. we're at a viewing party on the campus of the university of south florida in tampa. this is part of the i-4 corridor, an area that is evenly split between republicans and democrats. but it is also home to a large number of independent voters. this county, hillsboro county, is a significant b
that rally helped energize the students for obama movement nationwide and helped obama win virginia. but now fast forward to just yesterday when mitt romney was the rock star on this very same campus. 5,000 people came to hear him in the basketball arena with several thousand people listening to him from the outside. tonight the obama campaign says it owns the numbers of young voters, the romney campaign says it owns young voters' enthusiasm. and the extent to which young voters will either...
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in 2005, then-senator obama voted against roberts' confirmation. then, at the obama inauguration in 2009, roberts misspoke the oath and had to swear in the president a second time. roberts was nominated to the court by president george w. bush, and he has been a solid conservative. we asked wyatt andrews to tell us more. >> reporter: almost every conservative scholar in the country is now asking what happened to the chief justice? >> oh, i think everybody is surprised. >> reporter: georgetown law professor randy barnett was among the first to argue the insurance mandate was unconstitutional. he's surprised because the chief justice struck down the key administration arguments defending the affordable care act, but then went out of his way to approve the law under congress' power to tax. >> as to why he decided to uphold the act under the tax power, to rewrite the law as a tax and say that it was constitutional, that's something that only he really knows. >> reporter: until this morning, chief justice roberts was a reliable conservative vote, especi
in 2005, then-senator obama voted against roberts' confirmation. then, at the obama inauguration in 2009, roberts misspoke the oath and had to swear in the president a second time. roberts was nominated to the court by president george w. bush, and he has been a solid conservative. we asked wyatt andrews to tell us more. >> reporter: almost every conservative scholar in the country is now asking what happened to the chief justice? >> oh, i think everybody is surprised. >>...
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president obama and house speaker john boehner talked by phone today about the so-called fiscal cliff-- those tax hikes for most americans and massive spending cuts that will kick in the first of the year unless two strike a budget deal. a republican source tells us that the president has cut his demand for more tax revenue from $1.6 trillion to $1.4 trillion, but the source said that the lower figure is no more acceptable to republicans. but the negotiations continue in private. the united states has a lot at stake in the syrian civil war. president obama has suggested that american firepower might be needed to prevent the dictatorship from using chemical weapons. we've learned that tomorrow the administration will endorse one of the rebel groups that is now fighting to overthrow bashar al- assad. who are these new american allies? clarissa ward found their leader in brussels. >> reporter: moaz al-khatib is the man chosen to lead a newly formed coalition of syria's opposition groups. what does it mean to be recognized by the u.s.? "the u.s. administration has big influence globally"
president obama and house speaker john boehner talked by phone today about the so-called fiscal cliff-- those tax hikes for most americans and massive spending cuts that will kick in the first of the year unless two strike a budget deal. a republican source tells us that the president has cut his demand for more tax revenue from $1.6 trillion to $1.4 trillion, but the source said that the lower figure is no more acceptable to republicans. but the negotiations continue in private. the united...
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the obama administration says it isn't creating commerce but regulating the existing health care market since uninsured people often use health services they can't pay for which makes health care more expensive for everyone. but today the justices focused on a basic legal question: is it too soon for the court to decide the case? the issue is complex, but the justices were engaged and firing questions. >> reporter: at issue is whether the penalty people will have to o y for refusing to buy insurance amounts to a tax. he ao, the argument goes, the court won't have legal jurisdiction to hear the case whtil someone actually pays it, which won't be until 2015. now, on this narrow issue, the administration and the states th who are opposing the law are on the same side-- they want the court to decide this issue now. they're going to go head to head tomorrow, though, on that big , sctitutional question of the individual mandate and, scott, if the justices are listening to public opinion, they're going to throw this law out. in our new poll, more than two- thirds of the american people said th
the obama administration says it isn't creating commerce but regulating the existing health care market since uninsured people often use health services they can't pay for which makes health care more expensive for everyone. but today the justices focused on a basic legal question: is it too soon for the court to decide the case? the issue is complex, but the justices were engaged and firing questions. >> reporter: at issue is whether the penalty people will have to o y for refusing to...
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president obama says he's "modestly optimistic" a fiscal deal can be reached in time. he said he's instructed senator harry reid and senator mitch mcconnell to come up with a plan that can pass in congress. his brief comments a short while ago came after a white house meeting today with congressional leaders that ended with no deal. ahead of that, investors lost hope lawmakers can come together in the time remaining. in the last few minutes of trading, stocks sold off. the dow tumbled 158 points, the nasdaq lost 25, and the s&p fell over 15 points. here's darren gersh with more on the critical work that has to get done in washington this weekend. >> reporter: the president declared himself modestly optimistic congress could still reach an agreement to head off huge tax hikes on january first but he also warned lawmakers to get their work done. >> the american people are not going to have patience with a self-inflicted wound on the economy. >> reporter: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell called the white house meeting a good one and he told his fellow republicans
president obama says he's "modestly optimistic" a fiscal deal can be reached in time. he said he's instructed senator harry reid and senator mitch mcconnell to come up with a plan that can pass in congress. his brief comments a short while ago came after a white house meeting today with congressional leaders that ended with no deal. ahead of that, investors lost hope lawmakers can come together in the time remaining. in the last few minutes of trading, stocks sold off. the dow tumbled...
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president obama has proposed an $er taxes for households making more than $400,000. speaker boehner wants a tax increase only for households making a million or more. house is going to vote on that coposal tonight, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us. nancy. >> scott, shortly before that vote was due to take place house speaker john boehner announced he was canceling it with no democratic support, he needed almost every republican to get on board. and in the end he didn't e ve the votes. negotiations between speaker boehner and the white house ground to a halt today as everyone watched to see if he and house republican leaders would get the votes they needed to pass plan b, a bill preventing tax rates from going up for households making less than $1 million a year. majority leader eric cantor. >> we protect 99-- 99.81% of american taxpayers from a tax increase in these very whfficult economic times. >> reporter: that wasn't good fluff for some conservatives who said taxes should not go up for anybody. to placate them speaker boehner introduced a second bill cu
president obama has proposed an $er taxes for households making more than $400,000. speaker boehner wants a tax increase only for households making a million or more. house is going to vote on that coposal tonight, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us. nancy. >> scott, shortly before that vote was due to take place house speaker john boehner announced he was canceling it with no democratic support, he needed almost every republican to get on board. and in the end he didn't e ve the...
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now, president obama's job approval rating. it has fallen from 48% in april to 44% now, and in the 32 years that cbs news has been measuring job approval, no president has been re-elected with a rating that low. which brings us to bob schieffer, chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation"." bob, by my count, we have about 102 days to the election. the economy is not helping the president. but governor romney has had some stumbles, too. >> reporter: well, yes, whatever governor romney's reasons, scott, for going to europe, i think it's fair to say he did not help himself by suggesting the british weren't ready to host the olympics. it's usually not a good idea to criticize your host when you're in a foreign country, and especially a country that has the tabloid press like great britain. but i have to tell you, i would bet that the president would trade a couple of bad stories in the london newspapers for some better economic numbers here at home. these numbers out today, as you've just been saying, are dizz ma
now, president obama's job approval rating. it has fallen from 48% in april to 44% now, and in the 32 years that cbs news has been measuring job approval, no president has been re-elected with a rating that low. which brings us to bob schieffer, chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation"." bob, by my count, we have about 102 days to the election. the economy is not helping the president. but governor romney has had some stumbles, too. >> reporter: well,...
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. >> i know this is the best the obama team can do, but we can do better. and we will. ( cheers and applause ). >> reporter: among the majority of voters who say the economy is extremely important, our respondents in all three states say by double digits that romney would do a better job. voters aren't sold on changes to medicare, a reform championed by vice presidential candidate ryan. >> we will end the raid of medicare. we will restore the promise of this program. >> reporter: by a two to one margin, voters favor keeping medicare as it is, rather than changing to a voucher-type program ryan has advocated, and voters in all three states say the president, not romney, would do a better job handling medicare. but when asked if they'd support some reductions in medicare to reduce the federal deficit, a majority of voters in all three states said yes, 59% in florida, and 58% in ohio and and wisconsin. historically, democrats have had huge advantages on the issues of medicare, but the romney campaign believes they can fight this to a dead heat by talking about
. >> i know this is the best the obama team can do, but we can do better. and we will. ( cheers and applause ). >> reporter: among the majority of voters who say the economy is extremely important, our respondents in all three states say by double digits that romney would do a better job. voters aren't sold on changes to medicare, a reform championed by vice presidential candidate ryan. >> we will end the raid of medicare. we will restore the promise of this program. >>...
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obama all this week on the evening news. whoever wins the presidential election eight weeks from today will have to deal with iran's nuclear program. today israel's prime minister accused the u.s. of dragging its feet in the face of an eminent threat, here's david martin. >> reporter: with intelligence reports iran has been working on computer simulation simulationsr explosions, israel's prime minister netanyahu publicly scolded the obama administration for refusing to lay down a red line which would trigger a military strike. >> if iran knows that there is no red line, if iran knows that there's no deadline, what will it do? exactly what it's doing. it's continuing without any interference towards obtaining nuclear weapons capability and from there nuclear bombs. >> reporter: netanyahu seemed to be reacting to remarks by secretary of state clinton who told a radio interviewer two days ago there is still time to head off iran's nuclear program. >> we're not setting deadlines. we're... you know, we're watching very carefully
obama all this week on the evening news. whoever wins the presidential election eight weeks from today will have to deal with iran's nuclear program. today israel's prime minister accused the u.s. of dragging its feet in the face of an eminent threat, here's david martin. >> reporter: with intelligence reports iran has been working on computer simulation simulationsr explosions, israel's prime minister netanyahu publicly scolded the obama administration for refusing to lay down a red line...
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exit polls showed last night that obama has a seven-point lead over romney. other polls show the same thing. both campaigns stayed away from wisconsin during the recall but now we'll see in how many ads they run and state visits they make just how seriously romney wants to fight for wisconsin or how much the president feels he needs to defend. >> pelley: the core issue in wisconsin-- whether states can afford the wages and benefites of union workers-- was also at play last night in california. there voters overwhelmingly decided that pensions for retirees, including cops and firefighters, should be cut, and brian rooney has more on that. >> reporter: it was a blowout in both san diego and san jose where employees will have to pay up to 16% more out of their salaries or accept smaller retirement checks. mayor chuck reed ran for reelection on a promise of pension reform. >> in the first year of implementation it will save about $25 million. that number will go up every year for about 40 years. >> reporter: more than enough to dig the city out of deficit. in san
exit polls showed last night that obama has a seven-point lead over romney. other polls show the same thing. both campaigns stayed away from wisconsin during the recall but now we'll see in how many ads they run and state visits they make just how seriously romney wants to fight for wisconsin or how much the president feels he needs to defend. >> pelley: the core issue in wisconsin-- whether states can afford the wages and benefites of union workers-- was also at play last night in...
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the great recession was still on when president obama took office in january of 'sub 9. that month the economy lost more than 800,000 jobs, grim days. and it continued to lose jobs for 13 more months. in march of 2010, jobs began to grow. there was another dip, but jobs have been created for 22 months in a row now. still, that growth is too modest to put a dent in the unemployment rate. jobs are the issue likely to decide the race for the white house, and we have two reports tonight. first whitt wit with the romney campaign in las vegas. bill. >> reporter: scott, governor mitt romney came to this city with one of the worst unemployment rate in the country-- 12.1%-- and last president barack obama for today's jobs numbers. >> it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of america. >> reporter: governor romney laid out a broad five-point plan to fix the economy and help the middle class through energy unless, a balanced budget, by strengthening trade, education, and small businesses. >> it will create more jobs and more takehome pay, and i know how to
the great recession was still on when president obama took office in january of 'sub 9. that month the economy lost more than 800,000 jobs, grim days. and it continued to lose jobs for 13 more months. in march of 2010, jobs began to grow. there was another dip, but jobs have been created for 22 months in a row now. still, that growth is too modest to put a dent in the unemployment rate. jobs are the issue likely to decide the race for the white house, and we have two reports tonight. first...
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i know the-- the obama folks are chanting four more years, four fre years. rut our chant is this-- five more days. >> reporter: at a rally in virginia, a campaign cheer was also a reminder of how little time is left. >> five more days! ore more days! r reporter: before the y hadcane, romney had momentum. the race was in a dead heat, and he was tied or within striking distance in battleground states. but the storm knocked him off the front pages at a crucial time in the race. on monday and tuesday, he canceled rallies, and back on the trail yesterday in florida, d toned down his criticism of the president. roday in virginia, romney was back on his economic message with sharp attacks on president obama. >> his campaign and address is all about attacking. al actually have a plan to get this economy going. we're going to put it in place ameelp the american people. b reporter: now, before the storm, romney was actually leading the president on the questions of which candidate would be a stronger leader, and which one would be better at working with democrats and
i know the-- the obama folks are chanting four more years, four fre years. rut our chant is this-- five more days. >> reporter: at a rally in virginia, a campaign cheer was also a reminder of how little time is left. >> five more days! ore more days! r reporter: before the y hadcane, romney had momentum. the race was in a dead heat, and he was tied or within striking distance in battleground states. but the storm knocked him off the front pages at a crucial time in the race. on...